How can marketers satisfy this unquenchable desire for new content? One technology that helps tackle the need for developing and delivering a constant stream of personalized content to customers is natural language generation (NLG).

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OwnZones, which gathers premium subscription multimedia content tailored to user interests into a convenient ad-free site, has launched beta of the service. OwnZones is now open to anyone and registration is free. Consumers and potential media partners are invited to check out the site and provide valuable feedback that will help shape OwnZones for a full launch.

Demandbase, Inc., a real-time personalization and targeting platform for marketers, announced the availability of a Real-Time Company Identification Module for Google Analytics. Real-Time Company Identification for Google Analytics provides users with previously unavailable information about the companies visiting a website, giving B2B marketers a new way to view, analyze and segment web traffic, including the ability to report traffic and behavior based on specific companies, industries, company sizes, revenue bands, and even CRM-based account status.

Barnes & Nobles consumers should be forgiven if they're more than a little confused by the appearance and then disappearance for Amazon books on their shelves-yes, the actual, physical shelves. Some Amazon titles are being published and distributed by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and they popped up on Barnes & Noble's shelves. But according to paidContent, the books were quickly pulled from shelves when an email was issued asking the local stores to take it down.

The Oxford English Dictionary announces the launch of OED Appeals, a major online initiative set to involve the public in tracing the history of English words. Using a dedicated community space on the OED website, editors are soliciting help in unearthing new information about the history and usage of English. The website will enable the public to post evidence in direct response to OED editors online, fostering a collective effort to record the English language.

For most magazine readers, the physical experience of flipping through glossy pages and tearing out the things you want to share is the part they love the most. Now, readers can experience the joy of clipping and sharing content in the digital world as well, with a new feature from the MAZ platform called "Clippings."

Nimble, a social relationship manager, announced its latest version of Nimble, which integrates social selling discovery, engagement and collaboration. Nimble was designed entirely with customer engagement in mind and empowers companies to nurture their customers through social listening and engagement, helping them turn their social communities into customers for life.

Over 450,000 ebooks and e-journal contributions, over 15 million database entries, and some 17,000 open-access journal articles are now available at De Gruyter Online. The consolidation of all content at a single platform offers scholars advantages, as research can now be conducted conveniently from one interface, regardless of the publication format or distribution model. There are a range of helpful features at De Gruyter Online to make day-to-day use easier, including alerting services that inform users about new releases in a specific field, as well as export interfaces for all major citation services.

Elsevier, a provider of STM information products and services, and Ex Libris Group, a provider of library automation solutions, announced a collaborative initiative that will enable joint customers to search the Scopus abstracting and indexing database via the Ex Libris Primo Central Index.

OverDrive, a distributor of ebooks for libraries and schools, announced the release of the free OverDrive Media Console app for NOOK, making it easier for users to borrow ebooks and audiobooks from libraries and schools. With the new OverDrive app, users of NOOK HD, NOOK HD+, NOOK Tablet and NOOK Color can wirelessly borrow ebooks and MP3 audiobooks from the library.

Springer will begin migrating its global library customers to the new version of its platform, SpringerLink. The platform was re-engineered with a focus on improving the user experience based on three principles: speed, simplicity and optimization.

Amazon.com, Inc. announced that the all-new Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Paperwhite 3G begin shipping today. Kindle Paperwhite is constructed with 62% more pixels and 25% higher contrast, a patented built-in front light for reading in all lighting conditions, uncompromised battery life of up to eight weeks, and a thin and light design.

According to a recent study by Ovum, the proliferation of smart devices and mobile apps will give rise to a more sophisticated and interactive customer service experience over the next four years. With more than half of inbound customer service calls in key countries expected to be made from a mobile device by 2016, Ovum analysts warn enterprises to rethink customer services strategies.

Twitter has been on an announcement spree lately. Most recently, Twitter said it would expand the Discover tab. Twitter added the tab last December, billing it as a place where users could go to find tweets that were relevant to them. Now, according to a blog post, "when you visit the Discover tab on twitter.com, you'll see a continuous stream of Tweets, which automatically expand to show you the most relevant stories and most engaging photos."

No on has taken a more hard line stance against search engine indexing of news content that Rupert Murdoch, but some two years after declaring that Google (and other search engines) would no longer be able to crawl News Corps' The Times, paidContent is reporting that the news site will now allow the first two sentences of its articles to be indexed.

RAMP, a next generation search and video experience provider, announced a Series C financing led by New York-based StarVest Partners. As part of the transaction, Deborah Farrington, co-founder and general partner at StarVest will be joining RAMP's board of directors. StarVest is also joined by Hearst Interactive Media and EDBI as new investors in RAMP, along with participation from existing RAMP investors Fairhaven Capital, Accel Partners, General Catalyst Partners, and Comcast Ventures. This round brings the total capital raised to $40 million for the company.

Quark announced its new enterprise publishing platform for customer communications. Quark Publishing PlatformTM is an integrated solution that automates the creation and delivery of rich, interactive content across print, web, and digital formats. As an open solution, Quark Publishing Platform is architected to work with existing enterprise infrastructures and business systems to optimize the publishing process.

WoodWing Software announced the release of version 8 of its multi-channel publishing system Enterprise, including the editorial management application Content Station. With version 8, WoodWing has made extensive changes to the architecture of its publishing system, ensuring it will meet future publishing industry requirements. New communication protocols JSON and AMF have been added to the core.

AOL has focused, almost pathologically, on local news over the past few years. The center piece of that strategy has been Patch, which is now getting a makeover. The new look focuses on social networking, and according to paidContent it will debut on five Long Island Patch sites, and slowly roll out to more - and that Patch CEO Jon Brod says the site is focusing on "content, conversation, and commerce."

If you were hoping for a long-term record of every link you ever shared and errant thought you ever tweeted, there may be a solution for you in the works. According to CNET, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo told an audience at the Online News Association conference that users may soon be able to download a history of their tweets.

It appears that the battle of the retail behemoths is in full swing. Last week Wal-Mart announced it would no longer carry Kindles. Wal-Mart has long been one of the biggest book sellers in America. Amazon, of course, is not only known for being the largest online book retailer, it's now one of the leaders in the e-reader market and is leading Wal-Mart in the online and mobile commerce world.

While the DOJ's lawsuit against Apple and several publishers - which accuses them of price-fixing - has gotten most of our attention, a similar lawsuit has been working its way through the European legal system. While three publishers settled here in the States, Apple and the other publishers have vowed to fight on. In Europe, however, it's been a different story.

Mag+ went live with version 4.0 of its digital publishing platform. Major enhancements to Mag+ include its support for Apple iOS 6, and for publishing to Android smartphones and iPhone, including to the brand new iPhone 5.

Twitter has apparently learned nothing from Facebook's missteps when it comes to user profile designs. Every time Facebook changes its profiles, users turn to social media to gripe about every little thing, and now Twitter is updating its look with what some are a calling a Facebook-like emphasis on profiles.

appRenaissance, a provider of mobile application software and infrastructure, announced the beta release of Artisan, a new optimization platform built specifically for native mobile apps. Artisan is a comprehensive optimization platform that transforms static native mobile apps into powerful and dynamic marketing channels with the capabilities of today's best web optimization solutions.

GENWI announced that FLOODGATE, and the partners of ELEVATION PARTNERS, spearheaded by Mike Maples, Jr. and Roger McNamee respectively, have invested in GENWI's vision and cloud-based mobile content management system.

The name Epix may not mean a lot to you, but it means a lot to Netflix and Amazon. Epix is a premium movie channel, and Amazon struck a deal with the channel for streaming rights to its content which includes blockbusters like The Avengers, Ironman 2, and The Hunger Games.

Demandbase, a real-time personalization and targeting platform for B2B, announced the availability of a Real-Time Identification API for Salesforce.com, a solution that enhances Salesforce with critical details on prospects' engagement with a company's website. With Real-Time Identification for Salesforce.com, valuable customer insight from Demandbase's proprietary platform that identifies otherwise anonymous web visitors and key corporate data, is pushed right into the CRM platform.

Those of us who have come to rely on Amazon reviews in our buying decisions will no doubt find recent study results from Gartner truly disturbing. According to the research firm, by 2014 users can expect about 10%-15% of social media reviews to be paid by the companies selling the products being reviewed.

Google has been playing catch-up with Facebook for years - at least when it comes to the social media market. Now it's followed up Facebook's acquisition of super popular social photography app Instagram, with its own purchase of Snapseed - or more specifically, of Nik Software, the company behind Snapseed.

With a click, users of Salesforce.com can now instantly update data in their accounts, contacts and leads with just-verified information from ZoomInfo's profiles of 65 million businesspeople and six million businesses. With the new ZoomInfo for Salesforce app, a ZoomInfo panel is added to a Salesforce.com user's accounts, contacts and leads pages. The panel highlights data available from ZoomInfo that is more recent than - or missing from - the existing record in Salesforce.com. Additionally, a user can instantly find other contacts at a prospect's company without ever having to leave Salesforce.com.

MarkLogic Corporation, provider of the enterprise NoSQL database, introduced MarkLogic 6, a product designed to make it faster and easier for organizations to generate reliable, scalable, and secure Big Data results. The product includes new tools for faster application development, powerful analytics, and visualization widgets for greater insight, and the ability to create user-defined functions for fast and flexible analysis of huge volumes of data.

Founded by Christian Puricelli, former CEO of Onrest Web Services, and Filmon Ghirmai, MyNews.is began a quest to transform how people discover and read news articles. MyNews.is is a personalized discovery magazine, that let's people discover news that is of interest to them. Users choose their categories and sources that interest them and then rate these sources. MyNews.is then selects news stories that may interest the user.

You're probably most familiar with Buzzfeed as the site you visits for adorable pictures of kittens, but according to GigaOm, the company recently purchased Kingfish Labs for an undisclosed amount of money. Kingfish works in the natural language processing field, and aimed to use Facebook profiles to match up users for online dating.

According to InfoDocket, OverDrive-which delivers ebooks to libraries for publishers-has warned library customers that Hachette will be raising its prices by 220%. Hachette allows libraries to purchase some 3,500 backlist titles in digital format.

Adblade, an ultra-premium ad network, announced the launch of Adblade for Mobile, a new mobile program designed to help marketers reach and engage consumers on-the-go. Adblade for Mobile offers attention-grabbing formats, click-assurance, and massive scale across 1,000 premium sites, including NBC News, Fox News and USA Today.

Amazon is notorious for intentionally vague sales figures. "The Kindle is the top selling item on Amazon.com," it is always boasting, but never really offers concrete figures about what that means. So paidContent's "unearthing" of an email from Amazon Publishing VP Jeff Belle to literary agents is more interesting than it might seem on the surface.

TheStreet, Inc. a digital financial media company, announced that it has completed the acquisition of The Deal LLC from Wasserstein & Co. Founded in 1999 as The Daily Deal print newspaper, The Deal LLC transformed its business into a digital subscription platform that delivers coverage of the deal economy, primarily through The Deal Pipeline, a leading provider of transactional information and services.

Alacra, Inc., a provider of online business information solutions, announced the release of the Alacra Authority File, a database of core legal entity data attributes for over 170,000 global business entities, delivered to clients daily. The Alacra Authority File is a comprehensive source of entity reference data which expands, enriches, and enhances publicly available data from the CFTC's Interim Compliant Identifier (CICI) and helps financial institutions prepare for the upcoming release of the global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI).

Apple devotees had a good day on Wednesday, when the company finally announced the highly anticipated iPhone5. With a 4-inch screen, LTE, and a bigger battery the phone turned out to be pretty much what was expected.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been doing more than his share to help his company's faltering stock prices. First he announced that he wouldn't be selling his shares, and then, in a public appearance, he tried to assuage Wall Street's fears.

Chances are the apps you're using are free, at least according to Gartner. According to research, 90% of apps 95.6 billion apps downloaded this year will be free. Furthermore, by 2016 Gartner expects that 93% of an estimate 309 billion downloaded apps will be fee.

The Hive, a new community on Boston.com, launched today as a one-stop destination for news, information, and resources on Massachusetts' innovation economy. The section, , will explore technology, start-ups, the venture community, and the exciting growth of Boston's innovation sectors through local reporting, video series, and a curated feed of the best news and ideas on entrepreneurship from around the web.

If you visited your favorite website yesterday and found that it was out of commission you probably have Anonymous to blame. The hacktivist group - or at least Twitter accounts believed to be associated with the group - took credit for problems with GoDaddy hosted sites. Small businesses experienced outages, and eventually GoDaddy had to take down its own site and replace it with a statement.

After last week's ruling that upheld the DOJ's settlement with publishers Hachette, Simon & Schuster, and HarperCollins things have heated up. Many were expecting ebook prices to fall this week, now that publishers have been forced to cancel their contracts with Apple, but lawyer Bob Kohn filed documents that ask Judge Denise Cote to stay her ruling.

The DOJ's lawsuit against Apple and several ebook publishers is settled, at least in part. After the settlement agreement was initially rejected for not being specific enough about how the figure was reached, a judge approved a new settlement between the DOJ and three of the five publishers named in the suit. The companies were accused of colluding to keep ebook prices high by employing the agency pricing model.

Amazon.com announced the launch of Kindle Serials, stories that are published in episodes. When users buy a Kindle Serial they will immediately receive all existing episodes, followed by future episodes as they are published. When new episodes arrive, they are simply added to the end of your existing book, keeping your place and retaining your highlights and notes. Readers can also join the conversation on Amazon discussion boards as the stories unfold -- allowing the authors to learn from readers in real-time and perhaps influence a story's path.

Rampant speculation about today's Amazon announcement turned out to be more or less right. The web retailer unveiled the Kindle Fire HD, along with a revamped line of Kindles. Among the new devices is the Kindle Paperwhite, with a touchscreen, 62% more pixels than the Kindle Touch, and includes a fiber-optic lighting system.

Facebook's biggest critics often point to a weak mobile strategy, and the critics got a boost when eMarketer reported that Twitter topped Facebook in mobile ad sales game. Of course, the year isn't over and so the eMarketer figures are just projections but it estimates Facebook's mobile ad sales at $72.7 million for 2012, with Twitter coming in at $226.4 million.

Oxford University Press is continuing to expand its digital publishing program this September with the launch of Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (OSEO) and the re-launch of the Oxford Handbooks Online and Oxford Reference.